ABSTRACT
The design and approvals process for the Genoa Gronda motorway bypass –from the public debate in 2009, through definitive design and the environmental impact study of 2014, to the project implementation plan in 2018 – kept Autostrade and Spea engaged for ten years and required hundreds of thousands of engineering hours, with hundreds of service providers carrying out investigations, analyses, and specialist studies. This document describes how this organisation - in terms of the resources and technologies used - was able to face up to this colossal engineering challenge, managing the enormous flow of information generated by a succession of increasingly detailed design studies, whilst at the same time interfacing with the authorising bodies. The document begins by describing the regulatory framework, identifying the most important actors in the project and their responsibilities, before moving on to the most important logical sequences that led from the engineering concept design to the final design. Finally, the main contract-related aspects and the risk-management processes applied to the development of the project are described.
